SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A chimpanzee, several monkeys, some lemurs and an uncounted number of birds died when a nonprofit San Antonio-area wildlife sanctuary lost power early Monday, yet another...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities were working Sunday to recapture two chimpanzees that escaped from a sanctuary in eastern Missouri.

BERLIN (AP) — German police say the grisly find of an ape’s hand and foot in a forest west of Munich appears to be less nefarious than previously thought, and certainly not as outlandish than...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 24-year-old chimpanzee at the Maryland Zoo has given birth to a baby girl.

The zoo welcomed the 2-pound (0.9-kilogram) new addition on Dec. 29, officials announced in a...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A chimpanzee named Alex is the latest new attraction at Baltimore's zoo.

In a Tuesday statement, the Maryland Zoo announced that Alex has recently completed a month-long...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A baby chimpanzee born at the North Carolina Zoo now has a name chosen by public vote.

Zoo officials have announced that the chimp born on Monday, March 18 is named...

LONDON (AP) — Zookeepers say a group of chimpanzees used branches weakened by a storm to make a ladder and escape from their enclosure at the Belfast Zoo.

Video filmed Saturday by visitors to the Northern Ireland zoo showed several primates scaling a wall and perching atop it, with one walking down a path outside the enclosure.

KEITHVILLE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana sanctuary for retired federally owned chimpanzees has scheduled four mornings when the public can see humanity's closest relatives in outdoor habitats.

Chimp Haven is in Keithville, outside Shreveport. The sanctuary has scheduled "Chimpanzee Discovery Days " from 9 a.m. to noon on four spring and fall Saturdays: March 16, April 13, Oct. 19 and Nov. 16.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — For two years, the Riverside Discovery Center has been making improvements in front of and behind the scenes as well as bringing in new animals for the public to learn about. The zoo is now set to embark on another significant, long-term change to bring further enjoyment to the visiting public.

ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A chimpanzee that lived at the North Carolina Zoo for nearly 40 years has died after suffering congestive heart failure for about a year.

Zoo officials say 47-year-old Ruthie was euthanized Thursday. Zoo officials said she was known for being silly, sassy and stubborn.

She had arrived in 1980 and was one of the animals that lived longest at the zoo in Asheboro. A chimp named Maggie also arrived in 1980, and C'sar the elephant came in 1978.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Zoo has euthanized a 55-year-old chimpanzee because her health was failing.

The zoo announced Monday in a Facebook post that the chimp, named Blackie, died Friday. Born in Africa, she came to the Kansas City Zoo in 1966. She has eight offspring and is a grandmother.

The zoo says she "loved snow and bubble baths and was a favorite of the zookeepers who worked with her."

BEND, Ore. (AP) — A nonprofit chimpanzee sanctuary near Bend recently settled with the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration over safety violations but is now facing labor charges.

The Bulletin reported Sunday that Chimps Inc. agreed to pay over $12,000 after OSHA found unsecured doors, poor emergency planning and employees working alone.

MIAMI (AP) — Visitors found Booco the chimpanzee dead in his habitat at Zoo Miami.

Zoo spokesman Ron Magill tells the Miami Herald that reports of the unresponsive chimp came in Monday afternoon and zoo staff quickly closed off the area to the public.

MORGANTON, Ga. (AP) — On a sunny Tuesday in May, 11-year-old Hercules made a brave move and ventured outside alone. He moved slowly at first, looking at the ground and shaking his head before walking across 2 acres of forest to observe the sights and sounds around him. Not far behind him was Leo, also 11, who ran forward before stopping, sitting down and staring up at the sky.

Hercules and Leo are former research chimpanzees, and it was the first time in their lives they had ever been outside.

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — A center in eastern Missouri is offering to give up its chimpanzees and other primates to settle a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind intensive count of western Africa gorillas found far more of the apes than conservationists previously thought.

Maybe not for long: The same study found a 19 percent plunge in that gorilla population in just eight years.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One of the oldest female chimps in U.S. zoos has died at the Kansas City Zoo.

Zoo officials announced Friday that Patty, who was 55, was euthanized Thursday after her health quickly deteriorated during the last 10 days. The zoo said the average life expectancy of a female chimpanzee is 37.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri zoo says a baby chimpanzee that was born Jan. 9 has fallen ill with a life-threatening viral infection.

The Kansas City Star reports that the Kansas City Zoo's chimpanzee, Gracie, was removed from a troupe of chimpanzees, including her mother, 21-year-old Teeto.

BLUE RIDGE, Ga. (AP) — With reactions ranging from excitement and curiosity to fear and trepidation, 15 former lab chimps took their first steps outdoors this week at the Project Chimps sanctuary in North Georgia.

The 236-acre sanctuary is currently home to 31 chimpanzees that have spent their entire lives in captivity as subjects used in biomedical research.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Zoo has a new arrival.

The zoo announced Friday that a female chimpanzee named Gracie was born earlier in the week to 21-year-old Teetoo.

Gracie is Teetoo's first baby. Teetoo and her twin sister, Teeoni, came to Kansas City from the Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas, in 2003.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — When Andrew Oberle gives speeches to groups, he always starts with an experiment: "Raise your hand if you've survived the worst thing that's ever happened to you."

Invariably, all hands go up.

"Life's not easy for any of us," Oberle said. "Everybody has it in them to be resilient."

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A young female chimpanzee has been found dead at a Florida zoo from what appears to be an attack by at least one other chimp.

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo said in a news release that Keeva was found dead Wednesday morning.

Chief Zoological Officer Larry Killmar says Keeva had been spending the night with two adult chimpanzees, Twiggy and Nick. The older primates had been showing normal interactions with Keeva.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal officials say the Kansas City Zoo was not at fault when a chimp died.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture inspected the zoo's chimpanzee program after a 31-year-old chimpanzee died June 21.

The chimp, Bahati, died after falling from a tree and being attacked by other chimpanzees.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Zoo says a 31-year-old male chimpanzee died in an accidental fall from a tree.

The zoo said Wednesday the chimp, called Bahati, climbed a tree while interacting with other chimps. He fell to the ground after grabbing a dead branch and died from injuries from the fall.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Actor Alan Cumming is worried about an old co-star — a chimpanzee named Tonka — and he's asking a Missouri facility housing the animal to move Tonka and other chimps to an accredited sanctuary.

Cumming, 52, is a British-born actor who won a Tony Award for "Cabaret" in 1998 and earned three Emmy nominations for his role in the CBS television drama, "The Good Wife." In 1997, he starred in the movie "Buddy" alongside Tonka.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson helped broker a deal that provides long-term care for chimpanzees in northern Liberia that were part of a research colony.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/2rq3UHf) that funding for the chimps' care had dwindled and was then cut short by the New York Blood Center, which for decades had used the animals to test hepatitis B vaccines and other treatments.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Blood Center has reached a deal to provide for the long-term care of more than 60 Liberian chimpanzees formerly used in medical research.

Under an arrangement announced Tuesday the organization will pay $6 million to the Humane Society of the United States, which has agreed to assume responsibility for the animals.

The animals were used in the testing of a vaccine for Hepatitis B. The Blood Center ended the research in 2006.

HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Zoo is holding all its chimpanzees in their pen until staff can access the exhibit's wall after a chimp named Puiwa escaped for the second time in three years.

Puiwa scaled a wall Sunday that separated eight chimps from aviaries before jumping off the wall into a holding area. The chimp could have gone into the aviary walkthrough with zoo visitors, but did not, city spokesman Andrew Pereira said.

Puiwa was recaptured within 10 minutes of leaving the exhibit.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Candy the Chimp, who for decades lived at Dixie Landin' amusement park in Baton Rouge, has died, a North Louisiana chimpanzee sanctuary confirms.

Sam Haynes Jr. and his family have owned Candy since she was 6-months-old. She was more than 50-years-old when she died Thursday.

KEITHVILLE, La. (AP) — A northwest Louisiana sanctuary for chimpanzees that once were used for research has taken on 10 new residents.

The nonprofit Chimp Haven says in a Monday news release that the chimps have arrived from the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico. They are among more than 360 federally owned chimpanzees that were retired from research in 2013 by the National Institutes of Health.